Confession of a climate prostitute

By Michael Goetz|2010-11-12T15:50:34+00:00November 12th, 2010|CFACT Europe|Comments Off on Confession of a climate prostitute

Sent to us by our friend Drieu Godefrid*

[translation from the original French via Google].

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Today the Academy of Sciences released its report on the climate in which it validates the whole three thousand pages of the latest IPCC report and its conclusions, it is time for the masks to fall. I am ashamed.

This is the confession of a climate prostitute.

Yes, I confess, I wrote a book discussing the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) under false pretenses;

Yes, I confess, my motives were not disinterested;

Yes, I confess, I’m sold to lobbyists, for reasons both financial and ideological;

Yes, I confess, global warming seemed a potentially lethal threat to the global capitalism that I idolize;

Yes, I confess, my work on the IPCC is an order of a cartel of companies, including oil, especially in Europe, whose publication was intended to open up the columns of newspapers and television to reach the general public;

Yes, I confess, the many “forums” and I gave interviews to mark the release of this book are only variations on the same theme that the IPCC is a false political organization;

Yes, I confess, I never thought through a quarter of the nonsense that I stirred;

Yes, I confess, whole chapters of my book were “blown away” by agencies and foreign think tanks;

Yes, I confess, I have extensively studied the precepts of Gramsci and Bernays (Propaganda, 1928) and the strategy developed by the tobacco lobby in the sixties and later to counter the first scientific studies attesting to the harm of smoking;

Yes, I confess, I have therefore exploited the noble concept of doubt to discredit the scientific work of the IPCC — I am a merchant of doubt;

Yes, I confess, I never doubted global warming or its anthropogenic origins, although these issues are beyond my very modest skill;

Yes, I confess, I have distinguished the debate about the IPCC’s climate debate itself so as to insinuate doubt into the minds of citizens;

Yes, I confess, though imperfect like everything that is human, the IPCC is indeed scientific, not political as vilely I tried to make believe;

Yes, I confess, I fear my safety forbids me to say more;

Yes, I confess, I am not a prostitute, but an intellectual climate realist.